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Amelia Tapper
Hi Hannah, sorry for the delay. I have been trying to take a screenshot and send it to you with Screenshot Captor, but due to my inability to understand these programs I seem to keep messing things up. I am no longer sure if what I was doing was right and I couldn't work out how to send it to you. These 7 dropbox.exe were all running in Process Explorer and that is what I was trying to capture and send. Thanks for any help, Olddog76.
My employer uses dropbox as a shared drive, and has done so successfully for several years. However I've just started, and have run into an issue where many files are not openable via the windows file explorer folder.
When you did the install in 1P 8 prompted you to migrate the dropbox (local) items items out. if you said no, then you can do them afterwards as you want.
1 method i found: use ipad, but thats one-by-one by chosing the option to move each item to a new vault. use move, not copy.
At the end, of this i destroyed my dropbox files and the dropbox deleted items to make sure that they were gone off dropbox. i dont want them hanging around there. also deleted by local backups. I am relying on 1pwd to do the backups, except for 1new local encrypted backup set i keep
Im enjoying the new 1p 8 after 5 years on dropbox/local etc. But i didnt store my master password in 1Pwd for autofill. (no logical reason, but i feel better, since i had 5 years of local/dropbox data.
I'm a Dropbox user on Windows 10, with automatic updates enabled.I've got some portable software installed in a folder in my Dropbox. When I hit my Windows key and start typing, for example "winscp.exe" (a portable program in my dropbox), no results come up. If I click on "search", just below my keyword, after a while only an .ini file with a mention of WinSCP pops up.
So the tittle tells you guys pretty much everything. I've just made a clean install of Windows 7 (Home Premium) on my girfriends laptop since I putted an SSD drive. I installed everything with any trouble but this is driving me crazy. I downloaded the dropbox installer but it won't start. I mean the confirmation message of executing the file appears, but after that doesn't happen and I mean ANYTHING. The window dissapear and there is no instalator process running, no error messages, just anything.
Hi @marcelachaves ! I've just read your question, I found the solution by accident: when I execute the installer on Windows 7 the first message is the Windows 7 pop-up question that say if you are sure to execute this program with administrator privileges, I choose "NO" and the dropbox installer, instead of doing nothing, give me a message saying dropbox can be install without administrator privileges, and if I want to continue that way. So I went with that and it installed dropbox perfectly, it syncronize and is working properly. Hope this is any help for you!
Both folders have the same security settings for me, and yet the dropbox pictures folder cannot be seen in Windows Photos. I can specifically add it, and it will show, but at the next reboot (or later) they will just have disappeared again. After a reboot I actually saw them all disappearing...
I got no idea why you need to sync the file server to dropbox ? Have you tested what if you have a PC to dropbox sync and all the "working files" in the PC that is supposed to be sync gets deleted or corrupted ?
Sounds fairly crazy, as its designed to run from a desktop I'd probably make my first port of call an option to open up access to dropbox, a bit of monitoring in your firewall logs should help work out the best rules, then apply those to group 2 and install it locally as intended, if that really isn't an option then my next thought was based on linux inotify, i've never tested this link but maybe have a play and see if it helps: -to-monitor-a-folder-and-trigger-a-command-line-action-whe... Opens a new window
So for that I'd setup dropbox on a supported machine and give it access to the SMB share, then use something like that to monitor the dropbox folders for changes and another script to monitor the SMB share for changes and then trigger copies back and forth. The trouble with smb sharing dropbox from a workstation is Windows clients run out of connections quite quickly, so you'd be rebooting, servers don't have this artificial limit. Obviously if you are going to monitor for changes and copy them back and forth, you'll need some way of handling conflicts, which is likely why Dropbox doesn't want to run on a server without a user monitoring the app and responding to conflicts themselves.
Sounds like you should just move to a different product. I see people using dropbox all the time who could just as easily accomplish all the same tasks with OneDrive/Sharepoint(/Google Drive) yet they're paying for Dropbox in addition to their other subscription. If it's not supported, doing some kind of elaborate gymnastics to make it work is just asking for trouble.
The issue exists on a newly setup workstation on which I try to restore my data from a Dropbox account, but which fails with the very same error as in: -error-while-restoring-data-from-dropbox/&do=findComment&comment=37908
The fact that you are able to sign in using an incognito windows indicates that the conflict might be related to an extension you have installed on your browser. Would you mind trying to switch off your extensions following these steps to see if this issue is resolved?
Thanks John for the explanation.
The rhl file is well copied from one computer to another via dropbox, but it is therefore possible that the second computer does not take the file correctly into account if I understand correctly.
Until now I have been using webDAV with dropbox on Windows 10 with minimal issues. I care only about file safety and integrity and I do NOT care about speed at all. I only use windows 10 (maybe windows 11 in the future).
Also I wanted to ask @infeo and @overheadhunter, for critical files where integrity is of max importance, would you recommend WinFSP or is it still better to stick to WebDAV as size/speed do not matter to me, only stability/integrity. I have read many of your posts and it seems the initial WinFSP integration for windows a few years ago was problematic and was abandoned for quite some time initially. Are we now at a point where WinFSP is more suitable for critical files than WebDAV (for Windows 10/11 and Dropbox)?
Thank you for pointing that out. I am only going to use WinFSP on Windows 10/11, I assume this would prevent me from accidentally having both test.txt and Text.txt due to using windows explorer, is this correct? Or do I still need to monitor this myself to avoid this situation?
Houston founded Evenflow, Inc. in May 2007[21] as the company behind Dropbox, and shortly thereafter secured seed funding from Y Combinator.[22] Dropbox was officially launched at 2008's TechCrunch Disrupt, an annual technology conference.[23] Owing to trademark disputes between Proxy, Inc. and Evenflow, Dropbox's official domain name was "getdropbox.com" until October 2009, when it acquired its current domain, "dropbox.com".[23] In October 2009, Evenflow, Inc. was renamed Dropbox, Inc.[24]
I have a Windows 2003 server box with dropbox installed. Every once in a while, it pops up a dialog window asking for permission to update itself. Everytime it asks for permission, it renders the network adapter unuseable and I need to reboot the server.
...has the unpleasant property that it doesn't let you put its repository on a network drive. But it does work, albeit with some effort. Whether the effort pays off may be decided by everyone alone: repository in the roaming profile (default) results in long login and logout times (every time), putting the repository on the H: drive takes quite a while (once, because it is completely downloaded from dropbox once).
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